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Knowledge economy. What knowledge economy?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Fintan O’Toole wrote an excellent piece in The Irish Times back in August 08 about the delusional nature of our “knowledge society”. It is well worth reading, however for those who don’t have the time, let me summarise – it doesn’t exist, it never did exist and will probably never exist. O’Toole wrote that what [...]

Sneezy goes to town

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Wednesday gone, I made my first trip into Dublin in many, many years. Hopefully it will be as long again before I have to return. What I detest most is the journey. With this particular journey I well and truly went in off the black – I opted for the 9 o’clock bus thinking that [...]

No. I don’t like it either.

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

But it has to stay the way it is for now. Maybe until the next night that I can’t sleep and I go about playing with (yet!) another new theme. At least all that AJAX junk is gone. The verdict in Sneezy Manor on AJAXed WordPress is that it’s “more fekin trouble than it’s worth” [...]

Snippets #18

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

- The Kildare Chilling Co. facility was destroyed in a fire on Saturday afternoon. Both Breaking News.ieIndependent.ie say the fire broke out at the Chillen factory on the old Dublin road at around 4 o’ clock. I can only assume the report was phoned in by a true local. Anyway, it’s a sad loss – [...]

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